Prediction: We are at the same spot like 100 years before. AI will create mass unemployment, as did industrialization before. This will predictably lead to fascism. And then world war.
As worldwide trust in US weapons got decimated the last year, the US industrial military complex aint that happy to lose shitload of money. Trump needed to give them some sort of compensation.
Also, distraction from the Epstein files.
Cleaning the wikipedia entry was successful
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00899885.pdf
Shape-shifting software and blockchain for security
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01735540.pdf
hacking team is surprisingly cheap
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00709316.pdf
Not paying your sysadmins and hackers
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02016335.pdf